Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. 
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 300

WESLEY CURTIS, farmer and stock-raiser, is a native of Randolph County,
N. C., was born September 26, 1830, and is the second son of David A. 
Curtis.  He was reared by his father, a farmer;  received almost no education,
and early began to do for himself.   As an aid, he received eighty acres of
timber land, on which he toiled while living at home until 1857, at which period
he married Miss Elizabeth Jones, of Bartholomew County, and shortly after
located on his own land.  He soon built a house, which was burned in 1872,
and has now one of the best two-story brick houses in the township, having
as well cleared and established a desirable farm, which comprises 320 acres,
besides sixty acres in Jasper County, Ill., and some town property.  He is a
practical farmer, and has a fair supply of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.  After
the decease of his wife, who left two sons and one daughter--Margaret E.,
Francis M. and George W.--Mr. Curtis wedded Miss Jane Carman, an 
orphan of this county.  Mr. Curtis is a liberal and well-intentioned citizen,
a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.
Mr. Curtis has made a property valued at $30,000, and has in all a yearly
income of $3,000.

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